Top Ten Emerging Markets Brands
Via Emerging World, an interesting report on the top emerging market brands: Every year, global consultancy Brand Finance launches its Global Top 500 Brands index. It’s a highly anticipated list [...]
Gazprom Sign Off Mongolian SPV To Study Gas Supplies To China
Via Russia Briefing, an interesting report on Gazprom’s recent actions to study the potential of gas supply from Mongolia: Gazprom has registered a ‘Special Purpose Vehicle’ (SPV) company [...]
China’s Role in Switching Off The Lights In Pakistan
Via The Asia Times, an article on how China has invested billions in Pakistan power but tainted deals have contributed to recent nationwide blackouts with more likely to come: A nationwide power [...]
Deep-Water friendship: Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan Bury Caspian Sea Hatchet
Via Upstream Online, a report on how Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have agreed to join forces in exploring and developing contested deep-water block as relations have warmed: Turkmenistan and [...]
China and Pakistan Fall Out Over Belt and Road Framework
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on how the deadlock over interest rates for major rail project stalls the annual China/Pakistan annual summit: China and Pakistan are embroiled in their most serious [...]
Digital Silk Road: For Indonesia, Chinese 5G Cooperation Brings Promise and Peril
Via The Diplomat, an article on how Indonesia, like many developing nations, faces a difficult decision about how far to engage with China’s Digital Silk Road: Earlier this month, on his [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.